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Conference Theme

Options for the 80s

ACRL National Conference

October 1-4 Minneapolis

“Options for the 80s,” the theme for the Second National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, will address the future. As we enter the 1980s, we recognize that we are in a period of substantial and far-reaching change. Our society is changing. Higher education is changing. The disciplines are changing. Academic and research librarianship is changing. ACRL’s Second National Conference has taken as its focus an assessment of the options that lie before us in this next critical decade.

Following on the footsteps of ACRL’s highly successful First National Conference in Boston, a variety of program formats will provide ample opportunity for interaction among participants. In an effort to have participatory forums, some issues will be addressed through contributed papers prepared in advance and available—courtesy of University Microfilms, Inc.—in microfiche format to participants at the time of registration. Fifty-six papers on a variety of topics will be presented in this format. Abstracts of these papers are provided on pp. 229-241.

In addition, invited papers on major issues will provide the basis for stimulating dialogue throughout the conference and in the months to come. Through its theme addresses, the conference will attempt to identify the major opportunities and challenges that confront higher education and academic and research libraries during the 1980s.

• Thomas Patrick Melady,assistant secretary for postsecondary education, Department of Education, will lead off the theme addresses by looking ahead to future developments in higher education. Mr. Melady has served most recently as president of Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. His long tenure in academic and government service has included service as chair of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, executive vice-president at St. Joseph’s University, U.S. Ambassador to the African nations of Uganda and Burundi during the Nixon administration as well as serving on a panel of education policy advisors to Ronald Reagan during the presidential campaign. Mr. Melady will address future higher education policy directions in the federal government during the Reagan Administration.

• RobertM. Rosenzweig, vice president for public affairs at Stanford University and chair of an Association of American Universities study on future directions in higher education, will share with us the results of this national AAU study and his perspectives on the future of higher education. Dr. Rosenzweig’s thoughts have been shaped by years of service in academia. He taught political science at Amherst College, worked in the U.S. Office of Education as a special assistant to the commissioner, served as associate dean of the Stanford University Graduate Division and vice provost of the university before undertaking his present position.

• Daniel Sullivan,dean of academic development and planning at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, will speak about planning in the next decade within the context of higher education generally and four-year colleges specifically. With his responsibilities at one of the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate institutions, Dr. Sullivan is well prepared to address what lies before us in the 80s. Dr. Sullivan is a sociologist by training. Before becoming dean he was an assistant professor of sociology at both Carleton and Cornell University. Dr. Sullivan began his career as a research associate and an instructor in sociology at Barnard College. Dr. Sullivan is a prolific author of books and articles whose subjects range from sociology of science, knowledge and art to studies of peer group relations.

• PAUL A. Lacey,professor of English at Earlham College, Bichmond, Indiana, will address the options facing Iibrarianship in the coming decade through the eyes of an educator within a library-oriented discipline and an institution which has become well known for its library use instruction program. Dr. Lacey has been at Earlham since 1960 where he has served not only as a member of the teaching faculty, but also as chair of the English Department and provost of the college. His thoughts on library service come from his unusual perspective as teacher and longstanding outspoken proponent of bibliographic instruction.

• BeverlyP. Lynch, university librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, will consider the future from her perspective as a librarian, library administrator and leader in the academic library profession. Dr. Lynch has worked in libraries in this country and in England. She has served on the library staffs of Marquette and Yale Universities and as the ACRL executive secretary from 1972-77. Dr. Lynch has produced an extensive body of research and throughout the years has demonstrated well her ability to comment on the future of Iibrarianship in the coming decade.

The theme presentations will conclude on the last day of the conference with a panel discussion in which librarians representing the three ACRL Type-of-Library Sections—Community and Junior College, College, and University—will react to the issues that have been identified by the theme speakers and will attempt to codify the options for libraries, librarians, and library services. The panel will be moderated by David C. Weber, ACRL president and director of libraries at Stanford University. The three panel members will be Sherrie S. Bergman, chair of the College Libraries Section; Marcia J. Myers, chair of the Community and Junior College Libraries Section; and Joan I. Gotwals, chair of the University Libraries Section.

Thomas P. Melady

Robert Rosenzweig

Daniel Sullivan

PaulA. Lacey

Beverly P. Lynch

Special Events

Exhibits Opening and Reception; The exhibits of the ACRL Second National Conference, Options for the 80s, will officially open Thursday evening, October 1, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The opening of the exhibits will include an allconference cash bar reception with the exhibitors in the Hyatt Exhibit Hall.

Minneapolis Public Library Reception: A conference-wide wine and cheese reception to welcome ACRL to the Minneapolis library community will be held Thursday evening, October 1, from 9:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. at the Minneapolis Public Library. Tour the spacious modern library, visit with and meet colleagues, or dance to the music of The Moldy Figs, a local Dixieland band. The Minneapolis Public Library is located on the world famous Nicollet Mall within easy walking distance of the Hyatt. Shuttle buses will be running to take conferees to and from the Hyatt and the library.

Landmark Center Reception—St. Paul: Allconferees are invited to attend the wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, Friday, October 2, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., at Landmark Center, the restored Old Federal Court Building in downtown St. Paul. This historic court building, now the new cultural arts center, houses five non-profit agencies and sponsors a varied program of performing and visual arts as well as civic activities. The reception will be held in the Cortile, the huge indoor courtyard which rises six floors to a clear skylight. Music will be provided from the balconies. Conferees are encouraged to tour the old courtrooms as well as to stroll across Rice Park and visit the James Jerome Hill Reference Library and the St. Paul Public Library which share a stately building on the National Historic Register. Landmark Center is also within walking distance of the Science Museum of Minnesota which houses the acclaimed Omni Theater. Shuttle buses, leaving approximately every 30 minutes beginning at 6:00 p.m., will take conferees to St. Paul from the Hyatt with return trips beginning at 8:30 p.m.

St. Paul’s Landmark Center

Virgil Massman

The Landmark Centers spacious interior, where ACRL’s Friday reception will be held.

ACRL Banquet: The last special event scheduled for the ACRL Second National Conference is the gala ACRL banquet. Conferees are invited to an evening of good food and company on Saturday evening, October 3, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the gracious Hyatt Ballroom. The menu will consist of such regional specialties as Minnesota wild rice soup and poached torsk with dill sauce. Highlighting the banquet will be the acclaimed satirical review theatre group, Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop, which has been the resident satire company on national public radio’s “All Things Considered.” The group will perform “You Want Help? I Have a Terminal on My Lap & a Director in My Ear!” The cost for this evening is $19 per person. Do plan to share in this special event of fine food and listening enjoyment. Additional tickets will be available upon request.

Exhibits Program

Attendees can visit 173 exhibits of publishers, audio-visual producers, equipment and materials suppliers, networks and consortia, wholesalers and jobbers, computer and micrographics suppliers, computer-based reference services—one of the largest exhibits of its kind in the nation. Exhibitors at the conference (as of May 20, 1981) include:

ABC-CLIO

ACADEMIC BOOK CENTER

ALA PUBLISHING SERVICES

Allen & Unwin, Inc.

Ambassador Book Service, Inc.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

AMS Press, Inc.

Andrew Wilson Company

Amo Press/Microfìlming Corp. of America

Aves Audio Visual Co.

Baker & Taylor Company

Ballen Booksellers Inti, Inc.

Bell & Howell Micro Photo Division

Biblio-Techniques

Bibliographic Retrieval Services, Inc. (BRS)

BIOSIS

Blackwell

Book House, Inc.

Carrollton Press & U.S. Historical Documents Institute

Casalini Libri

Catalog Card Corp.

Chadwyck-Healey/Somerset House

Charles Scribner’s and Sons

Choice

Clearwater Publishing Co., Inc.

Combined Book Exhibit

Computer Science Press, Inc./ Computer Science Education

Extension

Conference Book Service

Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Coutts Library Services, Inc.

Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature

D&N (USA) Library Services, Inc.

DataPhase Systems, Inc.

Demco, Inc.

Design Group, Inc.

Dun & Bradstreet

E. B. S. Inc. Book Service

EBSCO Subscription Services

Elsevier Science Publishers

Environment Information Center, Inc. (EIC)

F. W. Faxon Company, Inc.

G. K. Hall & Co.

Gaylord Bros., Inc.

Geac Canada Limited

Greenwood Press

H. W. Wilson Company

Harper & Row

Heldref Publications

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Human Relations Area File

Information Access Corp.

Information Handling Services

Institute for Scientific Information

INTER DOCUMENTATION Co. JAI Press, Inc.

Kinetronics

Kluwer Boston, Inc.

Knowledge Industry Publications

Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd.

Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

Library Bureau, Inc.

Lockheed/DIALOG Information Services

Longman Inc.

Louisiana State University Press

M E. Sharpe

Mary S. Rosenberg, Inc.

McGraw-Hill Book Company

McGregor Magazine Agency

Methuen

Microform Review/Meckler Publishing

Midwest Library Services

The Minneapolis Public Library, where ACRL’s Thursday reception will be held.

Moore-Cottrell Subscription Agencies, Inc.

MOUNTAINSIDE PUBLISHING CO.

NEAL-SCHUMAN PUBLISHERS

NEWSBANK, INC.

NICHOLS PUBLISHING COMPANY

NORTHWEST MICROFILM

OCEANA PUBLICATIONS

OCLC ONLINE COMPUTER LIBRARY CENTER

ORYX PRESS

OTTO HARRASSOWITZ

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE

R. R. BOWKER

READ-MORE PUBLICATIONS, INC.

READEX MIRCOPRINT CORP.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS, INC.

RHC-SPACEMASTER

SCARECROW PRESS, INC.

SCHOLARLY BOOK CENTER

SCHOLARLY RESOURCES, INC.

SHOE STRING PRESS, INC./ARCHON BOOKS/LINNET BOOKS/PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

SOCIAL ISSUES RESOURCES SERIES

SPACESAVER CORPORATION

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK, INC.

ST. MARTIN’S PRESS

STERN VERLAG JANSSEN & CO.

SWETS NORTH AMERICA, INC.

TURNER SUBSCRIPTION AGENCY/ PUBLISHER’S EXPOSITION AGENCY

UNIFO PUBLISHERS, LTD.

UNITED NATIONS

UNIVERSAL SERIALS & BOOK EXCHANGE, INC.

UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS INTI.

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA

UNIVERSITY PRODUCTS, INC.

UTLAS

VEND-A-COPY, INC.

VIKING PENGUIN, INC.

W. H. FREEMAN

WALTER DE GRUYTER, INC./ALDINE PUBLISHING CO./MOUTON PUBLISHING CO.

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY

WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO.

YANKEE BOOK PEDDLER, INC.

Librarians, managers, administrators, computer professionals, and information scientists with wide-ranging responsibilities will not want to miss the exhibits. The exhibitors’ reception is scheduled for Thursday, October 1, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is a conference-wide reception with cash bars available in the exhibit hall. Exhibit hours will be: Thursday, 5:00-7:00 p.m.; Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. A no-conflict period for viewing exhibits will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday. A cash bar and lounge will be open in the exhibit hall, and a reasonably priced lunch will be available in an area immediately adjacent to the exhibit hall so the registrants may easily combine lunch with viewing the exhibits.